Abstract
Father Rene de Naurois, Corresponding Fellow of the AOU since 1971, passed away on 12 January 2006 in his 100th year. He was born on 24 November 1906 and spent his childhood on a large family estate near Toulouse in southern France. As a boy, he was attracted by nature and birds, naming himself a traine buisson. For most people except ornithologists, Rene de Naurois was famous first as a professor of theology and philosophy in the Catholic Institute of Toulouse, then as chaplain of the French army during World War II. He was among the first French to land on Ouistreham beach on 6 June 1944, which earned him the prestigious Compagnon de la Liberation. Although Rene de Naurois was interested in birds and nature from his childhood, not until 1954 did he become established as an ornithologist, with the publication of two papers on the raptors of the Toulouse area and of Morocco in L'Oiseau et la Revue Francaise
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